OpenAI releases new model that it says triggered internal security measures

OpenAI released its newest and most powerful model, called GPT-6 Astra, Thursday to a limited set of customers, labelling it the world’s most intelligent AI system and the first model to trigger advanced internal safety protections given its cyber capabilities.

The company said the model sets a new high-water mark for its ability to autonomously control computer systems and perform tasks on behalf of users, such as filling out spreadsheets and creating websites from scratch.

“Astra can really do anything a human can do with a computer,” OpenAI co-founder and president Greg Brockman said before the model was released.

Brockman said that Astra represented a “jump” in capabilities for its AI systems and said it would be reasonable to see Astra as a version of artificial general intelligence (AGI), often referred to as AI systems that can perform most meaningful tasks as well as humans. “Welcome to the AGI era!” Brockman said.

The company also emphasized that the model is faster and more efficient than its predecessor, GPT-5.6 Sol, on a variety of tasks. For example, OpenAI said that Astra achieved a higher score using fewer output tokens, a common unit of measurement for AI tasks, on a key cybersecurity…

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